California's blooming rose ice-cream is almost too pretty to eat

We've seen gelato flowers, chocolate roses, bacon bouquets and avocado buds. Now the next stage in edible flower evolution is here, in the form of this California-based ice-creamery's dreamy ice-cream bloom.

Santa Ana's Cauldron Ice-Cream have once again tapped into Instagram's love of gimmicky foodstuff with the blooming rose ice-cream.

The treat comprises one oversized fresh-from-the-hot-iron egg waffle cone, topped with silky smooth liquid nitrogen-churned ice-cream, which is then individually moulded to resemble a rose, and topped with your choice of edible flare. Watch the video above for a visual smorgasbord of the delicious combinations and to see how they do it — but be warned, you'll be scrambling to book your flight to LA soon after.

Fighting the urge to take a photo of these pretty ice-creams and upload it immediately to Instagram is basically futile, according to the growing pool of geo-tagged snaps of the treat. Literally hundreds of Cauldron's billowy blooms are currently being spruiked on the platform, and we can't get enough.

This isn't the first time the Cali sweet palace has gone viral with a tricked-out dessert trend, either. When they launched in 2015 they were among the first to reinvigorate Hong Kong's beloved street snack, the egg waffle, and grab the world's attention with their own ice-cream-laden version called the "puffle" cone.

However, if the rose ice-cream concept rings a bell, there's a reason for that.

Sydney sweet maker i-Creamy's artful gelato flower creations became something of an Insta-sensation last year. In the i-Creamy version, each petal is individually scooped and styled to stunning effect, as you can see in the post below. That doesn't mean we won't still be lobbying and praying to the ice-cream gods for its creamy cousin to cross over to our shores — the more the merrier, right?